To promote individuals through leisure education and social action based on the values in the Gospel.

Mission elements

	Individuals are ends in themselves in the PTF’s set of ideals and can never be used as mere means. The PTF’s ultimate mission concerns the wide range of aspects that contribute to full individual development in dignity and in all dimensions.
	Social action with groups with specific needs or disadvantaged groups and community development promotion can only serve individuals and their growth if they incorporate the educational dimension and are used as settings for values education.
	The importance of social contexts, in addition to school contexts, in building a young person’s personality, has led the PTF to choose leisure as a privileged framework wherein to promote values education.
	Education helps people develop themselves fully, which is why the PTF’s mission can be found within the framework of education. All PTF actions, be they training, social, cultural...have a clearly educational dimension in their means and purposes.
	The PTF regards education as the transmission of values which supports individual growth. The evangelical principles and values derived therefrom which are expressed in the PTF’s set of ideals clearly define the mission’s educational content.

Values that guide the Foundation’s actions

	Jesus Christ and his liberating proposal formulated in the Gospels.
	Its specific educational, training and social action mission as a means of transforming society and accompanying individual growth.
	Its open Catalan identity, which leads it to work through respect and enrichment with other social and cultural realties.
	The awareness of forming part of a civil society and a group of not-for-profit entities (associations, foundations and NGOs) which strive to promote individuals and work in the general interest.

Based on these principles, the Pere Tarrés Foundation defends the dignity of human beings and their responsible, singular and unique character, open to ‘the other’, to transcendence and to the relationship with God. The Foundation embraces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Children.
The fundamental values of love, freedom, truth, justice and peace are affirmed through this concept of the individual. Furthermore, the Foundation is committed to integrating and educating individuals in these values, together with respect, personal autonomy, austerity, rigour, an attitude of service and responsibility.
Moreover, society, politics and the economy must serve individuals. We strive to promote participation, dialogue and social harmony, the primacy of civil society, the social market economy, solidarity and volunteerism, social and peoples’ rights as well as ecological awareness to make that possible.
The explicit expression of these values in its set of ideals serves to reaffirm the Pere Tarrés Foundation’s commitment to the Church of which it forms part and the society which it seeks to serve.